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10.2 x 5.3 x 5.1 cm. The cream-colored, pearly bowtie, complete and perfect, is just barely attached to and standing up at a striking angle from the sparing matrix, which forms a perfect natural base for the stilbite.
17.2 x 11.4 x 8.4 cm. A large SHOWPIECE combo specimen from India! It features a cluster of huge, blocky apophyllite crystals, to 5.5 cm across the termination, sitting right beside a cluster of peachy bowtie stilbites. The apophyllites have crenellated terminations with a frosty color that is really pretty atop the green apophyllite. The specimen was trimmed out beautifully, closely cropped around the two minerals on just a thin shard of matrix. In fact, this matrix extends only underneath the apophyllites - the stilbites jut out freestanding into space. A big, gorgeous piece!
6.0 x 4.8 x 4.5 cm. An AESTHETIC and CLASSIC spray of gemmy, green fluorapophyllite crystals on stilbite matrix from the famous and now-closed Pashan Quarry at Poona. These are considered the best Indian fluorapophyllites, with the last coming out in the late 1980s. This piece probably dates to the late 1970s to early 1980s. The isolated spray is really cute. The only way to get one like this through recycled collections. Ex. Gary Hansen Collection.
6.3 x 5.4 x 3.9 cm. Yet another wonderful apophyllite specimen in this set of auctions, and of yet another completely different style! This is the "classic" crystal form, in this case a SUPER gemmy crystal (4.5 cm tall), with a smaller accessory crystal and some accenting light salmon-colored stilbites.
7.4 x 3.4 x 3.3 cm. A gorgeous cluster of intensely bright and gemmy apophyllites, ranging from transparent to a very slightly green hue, intergrown with pastel-pink stilbites with a pretty pearly luster, and a bit of accenting quartz.
6.6 x 5.3 x 3.0 cm. A beautiful, 6 mm spray of gemmy, royal-blue pentagonite blades jauntily perched atop vuggy matrix covered with sparkly stilbite crystals from the famous Wagholi Quarry of India. Three additional pentagonite sprays lined up vertically add a very nice accent to this sculptural, wing-like specimen.
7 x 6 x 4 cm. Beautiful stalactite of bright, very gemmy Apophyllites that are absolutely water-clear, and range in size up to 3.5 cm, though most are about 2 cm. Intergrown are sharp, light salmon blades of Stilbite that have incredible pearly luster. The larger Stilbites, up to 2.2 cm, develop into beautiful fans that begin to exhibit the well-known bowtie habit. Ex. Steve Smale Collection.
5.7 x 4.5 x 4.3 cm. Lovely and classic single Fluorapophyllite sitting majestically on a bed of fine straw-like Quartz. This beautiful mint-green crystal, 2.3 cm long, is gemmy and lustrous, exactly what you would expect from the best of this famous location. Ex. Steve Smale Collection.
7.3 x 3.7 x 3.6 cm. A superb large (3.4 cm) Stilbite perched on a delicate series of Quartz stalactitic straws. All the Stilbites have a lovely peach color and excellent pearly luster. Ex. Steve Smale Collection.
6.5 x 4.5 x 4.5 cm. Incomparable pair of matched 1.3 cm balls of the finest Cavansite you are likely to find. The deep blue color and excellent luster, all on a bed of tiny gemmy Stilbites, give this absolutely unmatched aesthetics. Ex. Steve Smale Collection.
9.4 x 8.2 x 4.5 cm. A SUPERB, AESTHETIC and RARE specimen of highly lustrous, pearlescent stilbites on beautifully contrasting, black basalt matrix from the same Madagascar locality, that produced the small lot of very gemmy, twinned, colorless to amber calcites a few years ago at the Munich Show. This is a gorgeous specimen, with all of the major and secondary stilbites being pristine. Stilbite is essentially UNKNOWN from this basalt road-metal quarry.
8.4 x 4.4 x 2.6 cm. An elegant, sculptural specimen from India, featuring a stalactite of quartz studded with doubly-terminated stilbites that grew all along its length.
3.2 x 3.1 x 2.4 cm. A Himalaya tourmaline crystal with a RARE association of translucent stilbite bowtie crystals! The stilbites grew right on top of the fine, flat crystal termination. The crystal itself is classic Himalaya in pink color and translucency, though with a chunky, truncated form. It weighs 37 grams.
14.7 x 7.5 x 6.6 cm. A bed of white chalcedony acts as the matrix for this cluster of lustrous, translucent, light, salmon-pink stilbite crystals, to 10.0 cm across for the largest "bow tie". In addition, a 5 cm colorless fluorapophyllite juts out from underneath the left side of the largest stilbite.
8.6 x 6.4 x 4.1 cm. A lustrous, gemmy apophyllite of the blocky form, centered on a nicely-trimmed matrix covered with sparkly white stilbite, from Nasik. The crystal measures 3 cm. There are some pearly stilbite crystals sticking up from the matrix as well.
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